Norfolk gamekeeper Allen Lambert has been sentenced for what wildlife groups are calling the worst case of bird of prey poisoning recorded in England.

Volunteers and residents in New Zealand manage to help free some pilot whales which had become beached in Ohiwa Harbour.

Using a remote-controlled vehicle disguised as a penguin helps researchers study shy emperor penguins up close.

Gardeners should use their lawnmowers less often to protect Britain's bees and other pollinating insects.

Matt Shardlow from Buglife shows the BBC's Victoria Gill around a city rooftop that's been designed to attract bees.

When a blue thermos flask sent from Zaire arrived at a lab in Antwerp in September 1976, no one knew that the blood samples inside would contain the worlds first glimpse of Ebola.

Ideal growing conditions means British fruit farmers are still harvesting strawberries into November.

The Woodland Trust asks for votes to choose England's first Tree of the Year to compete in a Europe-wide contest.

A safety device on the Virgin Galactic spacecraft that crashed on Friday deployed early during the fatal test flight, US investigators say.

The unrestricted use of fossil fuels should be phased out by 2100, if the world is to avoid dangerous climate change, a UN-backed expert panel says.

A breeder in China's Chendgu province was trying to give these two baby pandas medicine instead of their usual bamboo leaves- and they were having none of it.

A look around a new lab at Pirbright Institute in Surrey, where the world’s most contagious livestock viruses will be kept.

A 39,000 year-old baby mammoth named Yuka has been put in display in central Moscow making it the best preserved mammoth in palaeontology.

A lava flow from the Kilauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island is now drawing close to homes.

An unmanned cargo rocket has exploded seconds after lifting off from a commercial launch pad in Virginia.

A mobile phone app that recognises which species of bird is singing is being developed by a researcher at Queen Mary University in London.

Funding has been confirmed for a £97m supercomputer to improve the Met Office's weather forecasting and climate modelling.

Conservationists are warning that some of Britain's endangered plants are being put under even greater threat, because thieves are stealing them to order.

Wetheriggs Animal Rescue Centre in Cumbria move their 1700 animals to a new home County Durham.

Google executive Alan Eustace has broken the world altitude record for a parachute jump by leaping from 135,890 feet (41,419 metres) beating Felix Baumgartner's record.